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International Activities
The Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD) plays a vital role in investigating parasitic diseases to help promote public health internationally. DPD provides technical assistance to private foundations, nongovernmental organizations, U.S. Government agencies, and international foreign governmental public health agencies to :
- Eradicate dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease)
- Eliminate lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Control and prevent malaria, sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease, cysticercosis, and other parasitic diseases
WHO Collaborating Centers
As a measure of its depth of international public health activity, DPD is home to seven World Health Organization Collaborating Centers:
- WHO Collaborating Center for Human African Trypanosomiasis
- WHO Collaborating Center for Immunodiagnosis of Cysticercosis and Taeniasis
- WHO Collaborating Center for Research, Training, and Control of Dracunculiasis
- WHO Collaborating Center for Control and Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis
- WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria Control in Africa
- WHO Collaborating Center for Production of and Distribution of Malaria Sporozoite ELISAs
- WHO Collaborating Center for Evaluating and Testing New Insecticides, Insecticide Resistance, and Insect Vectors
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